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contracttrainstransparencytransporttraveltrialubervideodromeviolencevisualvocationwellbeingwhite collar crimewifiyoutubezenJohn Flood's Random Academic Thoughts (RATs)I am a legal academic commenting on the strange worlds of law, legal profession, bureaucracy, universities, and globalization. You can find my publications and download them at <a href="http://www.johnflood.com">www.johnflood.com</a>http://johnflood.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (John Flood)Blogger604125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7065001.post-6019886689699058901Tue, 26 Sep 2017 04:51:00 +00002017-09-26T05:51:46.047+01:00globalizationlegal professionnarrativeprofessionstechnologyProfessions and Narratives: Can They Reconstruct Their Futures
(thanks cvtnews.ca)
I have put up new paper on SSRN titled: "Professions and Professional Service Firms in a GlobalContext: Reframing Narratives".
The abstract reads:
Professions are changing rapidly and profoundly as new technologies, organisational forms, and regulations are introduced into the professional world. As a result, professions are creating new narratives to stake their http://johnflood.blogspot.com/2017/09/professions-and-narratives-can-they.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Flood)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7065001.post-5548851311660906560Thu, 22 Jun 2017 06:54:00 +00002017-06-22T07:54:58.886+01:00algorithmsconferenceslaw firmslawyerslegal educationtechnologyBack in the USSR...Russia Actually
(thanks to sobaka.ru)
In this photograph I'm comparing glasses with another delegate at the St Petersburg International Legal Forum. Actually we were at Legal Street, an event held by the Forum and the Russian Ministry of Justice and were being shot by a fashion magazine--Sobaka.ru, as you do.
The last few months have been active, especially in the area of law and technology and new http://johnflood.blogspot.com/2017/06/back-in-ussrrussia-actually.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Flood)2Brisbane QLD, Australia-27.4697707 153.02512350000006-28.3721187 151.73423000000005 -26.5674227 154.31601700000007tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7065001.post-7013204314935636524Wed, 04 Jan 2017 00:57:00 +00002017-01-04T00:57:29.413+00:00legal educationlegal servicesregulationtechnologyFuture of Legal Services and Legal Education?
When one starts thinking about the intersection of legal services, the legal profession, and legal education, I honestly don't think it's too far removed from the Venn diagram above.
On 13 December my good friend, Julian Webb (and also Paul Maharg), organised a legal services forum at Melbourne Law School to bring together academics, policy makers and practitioners to discuss the challengeshttp://johnflood.blogspot.com/2017/01/future-of-legal-services-and-legal.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Flood)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7065001.post-386577192376224707Mon, 02 Jan 2017 08:52:00 +00002017-01-02T08:54:56.156+00:00legal educationrule of lawRule of Law and Legal Education: Do They Still Connect?
I've put a new paper up on SSRN.com on the rule of law and legal education. The introduction reads:
When we connect legal education and the
rule of law it has two connotations: to what extent should legal education be
protected by the rule of law, and to what extent should the rule of law be
taught within legal education. It is not difficult to see how both connotations
could cause problemshttp://johnflood.blogspot.com/2017/01/rule-of-law-and-legal-education-do-they.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Flood)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7065001.post-6827683877391123339Sun, 06 Nov 2016 08:33:00 +00002016-11-06T12:03:48.677+00:00barristersEngland & WalesGermanylawyerslegal educationpracticeLegal Education in England & Wales and Germany: New Paper
Anna Mountford-Zimdars, Kings Learning Institute, Kings College London, and I have written a new paper on legal education in England & Wales and Germany focusing on barristers' education and German advocates. It's on SSRN.
Here's the abstract:
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It seems to be the season of law firm/business surveys. We're hearing a lot about New Law, pushback from clients, less for more and so on. Smith & Williamson, an accounting firm, have surveyed law firms about their future finance decisions.
Law firms are facing increasing competition from other firms. This isn't surprising as most below the Magic Circle are fungible. And it would be thehttp://johnflood.blogspot.com/2016/09/financing-law-firms-new-law-versus-old.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Flood)1Brisbane QLD, Australia-27.4697707 153.02512350000006-28.3721187 151.73423000000005 -26.5674227 154.31601700000007tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7065001.post-2924028805490192973Thu, 01 Sep 2016 02:29:00 +00002016-09-01T03:29:06.356+01:00bitcoincybersecurityhackmalwareNSAWhat Happens When the NSA Gets Hacked?
My colleague, Adrian McCullagh, and I published a story on Medium.com about the NSA hack by a group called the Shadow Brokers.
Shadow Equations: Where IT Security Fails
Everyone now lives on the internet and security is paramount except we seem so bad at providing it. Businesses and governments receive thousands of cyber-attacks a day from countries like China. In the wake of infiltrationshttp://johnflood.blogspot.com/2016/09/what-happens-when-nsa-gets-hacked.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Flood)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7065001.post-8881055582905588574Thu, 18 Aug 2016 03:07:00 +00002016-08-18T04:07:27.080+01:00ABSBig 4Big Lawlarge law firmslaw firmsWhat Is Going on with the Legal Profession?
The other day I was asked to write a paragraph about the future of the legal profession and here's what I wrote:
The legal profession of the 21st century has been described as having encountered its own Cambrian explosion. Rather than extinction the legal profession is facing rapid change as the result of increasing use of technology, globalisation, the deregulation of legal services http://johnflood.blogspot.com/2016/08/what-is-going-on-with-legal-profession.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Flood)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7065001.post-4211752538251082631Mon, 01 Aug 2016 07:30:00 +00002016-08-01T13:26:24.285+01:00AIartificial intelligencedoctorslawyerslegal professionmachinesprofessionsrobotsProfessions and Technology: History and Transformation
I gave a presentation at a roundtable organised by the Royal Society on professions and machine learning recently. This is the text:
Professions and Technology: History and Transformation
One way of characterising professions is as vehicles that convey expertise to consumers who are unable to generate that expertise themselves. To this basic formulation we add professions are usually http://johnflood.blogspot.com/2016/08/professions-and-technology-history-and.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Flood)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7065001.post-2569803047969266987Tue, 26 Jul 2016 10:36:00 +00002016-07-26T11:36:46.235+01:00AIgooglelaw firmslawyersuberThought Experiment: What Does the Uberization of Legal Practice Mean?
Yesterday I had lunch with Joanna Goodman, a journalist who writes for the Guardian and the Law Society Gazette on matters technological, and we talked about the conservatism of law when it came to incorporating technology.
This has led me to a thought experiment I'd like to try out here. First, a couple of assumptions: this is speculation into a distant future. I say this because in my http://johnflood.blogspot.com/2016/07/thought-experiment-what-does.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Flood)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7065001.post-5545400293505777391Mon, 04 Jan 2016 09:22:00 +00002016-01-04T09:22:42.972+00:00Big Lawglobalizationlaw firmsmergers and acquistionsHow Mortal is Big Law?
Despite all the theories put forward, the forensic evidence adduced, the conspiracies mounted, Jack the Ripper wasn't caught and so didn't meet his just deserts. It keeps retired coppers and others in business however. The fate of Big Law is similar.
Today an article in the Financial Times (accessible here) proudly proclaimed "dominant New York corporate law firms increase market http://johnflood.blogspot.com/2016/01/how-mortal-is-big-law.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Flood)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7065001.post-6959933456313075225Fri, 30 Oct 2015 15:35:00 +00002015-10-30T15:35:22.938+00:00Indialaw firmslawyersWhy there are no foreign lawyers in India...
I've put up a new version of my paper on foreign lawyers and law firms in India, which sounds like there are and there aren't.
It's on SSRN.
http://johnflood.blogspot.com/2015/10/why-there-are-no-foreign-lawyers-in.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Flood)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7065001.post-1535357324448103901Wed, 07 Oct 2015 14:46:00 +00002015-10-07T15:46:49.565+01:00clientslaw firmslawyersLegal Services ActregulationregulatorsThe Law of Legal Services
(thanks to pinoycivilservant)
The market for legal services has changed enormously in the last several years. Regulation, organisation, online delivery and more have altered so as to make the English legal market quite different from most others. I'm not tracing the history of these changes in this post as a large part of this blog has already done this.
Whereas students of change like me http://johnflood.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-law-of-legal-services.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Flood)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7065001.post-1431045995039952504Thu, 24 Sep 2015 10:52:00 +00002015-09-24T11:52:46.289+01:00diversitylawyerslegal proveHow do you feel about the future of the legal profession?
(thanks to globallegalpost)
Following the brouhaha of Jonathan Sumption's remarks on equality and diversity in the legal profession and especially the higher judiciary--just be patient and wait 50 years--it's time to find out what people think about their futures. For those of you interested in following up the debate on Sumption, it's worth reading Steven Vaughan's astute response.
The http://johnflood.blogspot.com/2015/09/how-do-you-feel-about-future-of-legal.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Flood)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7065001.post-7950243318563775034Fri, 18 Sep 2015 12:11:00 +00002015-09-18T13:11:19.104+01:00defamationinjunctioninternetlawyersSolicitors from HellwebsiteSolicitors from Hell Don't Go Away.....
Four years ago I came out of the BBC after a heated radio discussion with the former CEO of the Law Society, Des Hudson, about the website Solicitors from Hell. He was furious with the website for defaming lawyers while I said it's a manifestation of a feeling among the public that you should tackle: don't shoot the messenger.
Of course they shot him (Kordowski). The court imposed damages, http://johnflood.blogspot.com/2015/09/solicitors-from-hell-dont-go-away.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Flood)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7065001.post-8194670771824080243Thu, 30 Jul 2015 17:48:00 +00002015-07-30T18:48:04.226+01:00AIethicsintelligenceregulationrobotsYou Robot! What Does It Mean to Regulate Artificial Intelligence?
(thanks to howstuffworks?)
There's a huge amount of discussion in the media now about killer robots annihilating hordes, autonomous (driverless) cars running amok and mowing down people, and at the point of singularity Skynet will say no to being switched off and we are in a continuous war of us against them.
There's also a huge amount of rubbish being spoken too, so it's time to introduce http://johnflood.blogspot.com/2015/07/you-robot-what-does-it-mean-to-regulate.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Flood)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7065001.post-1633519884869120874Thu, 16 Jul 2015 13:29:00 +00002015-07-16T21:20:32.107+01:00clientsglobalizationlaw firmslawyerslegal servicesThe Future of Law Firms
Great conference coming up courtesy of University of St Gallen, Switzerland, on October 1, 2015. The conference itself is being held at Haus zum Rüden in Zurich. Interesting line up of speakers (including me). Here they are:
Details of who's who here:
Booking details and registration are here in English and here in German. And if you would like more information contact Rahel http://johnflood.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-future-of-law-firms.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Flood)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7065001.post-502897429050965842Wed, 15 Jul 2015 09:57:00 +00002015-07-15T11:00:23.019+01:00globalizationIndialaw firmslawyersHow Foreign Lawyers Failed to Colonise India
Recently the big corporate law firm of Amarchand Mangaldas split between two brothers, Cyril and Shardul Shroff. The settlement is published above. The division allowed outsiders in to the strange world of Indian law firms, generally private and very profitable. Although the number of corporate law firms in India is small they are powerful. The number of lawyers in India is huge, however. http://johnflood.blogspot.com/2015/07/how-foreign-lawyers-failed-to-invade.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Flood)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7065001.post-7560243772876858237Fri, 03 Jul 2015 12:14:00 +00002015-07-03T13:14:08.157+01:00Big Lawglobalizationlaw firmsmergers and acquistionsDeath of Big Law Announced Prematurely....
More often than not the sirens of the future predict the demise of Big Law, that the traditional law firm model has run its course, millennials won't work there, general counsel refuse to pay outrageous hourly rates for fat cat partners. The likes of Jordan Furlong, Richard Susskind, George Beaton, and occasionally myself, will tell us why and how the new age of lawyering will be upon us likehttp://johnflood.blogspot.com/2015/07/death-of-big-law-announced-prematurely.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Flood)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7065001.post-8280106679573964465Mon, 22 Jun 2015 14:44:00 +00002015-06-22T15:44:44.040+01:00barbarristersIrelandlegal professionregulationtechnologyThe Irish Bar, Magna Carta and the Future of Law
(thanks to Irish show bands)
I was asked to speak to the Irish Criminal Bar Association last week in conjunction with the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta. Why not, I thought, I've given around twenty talks this academic year. One more is fine. It meant I would see the new criminal courts in Dublin, designed by Henry J. Lyons.
We were two speakers, a Senior Counsel on what Magna Carta meant,http://johnflood.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-irish-bar-magna-carta-and-future-of.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Flood)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7065001.post-1469404456186939238Sun, 07 Jun 2015 14:29:00 +00002015-06-07T15:29:19.262+01:00globalizationlegal professionlegal servicesprofessional service firmsprofessionsTrade in Service Agreement (TiSA) and Legal Services
(thanks to Wikileaks)
Wikileaks has just released 17 documents TiSA related documents. For those of you who haven't heard of TiSA before it's the Trade in Services Agreement. It is the largest part, but least known, of the three main trade agreements being negotiated now. They are TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership), TTIP (Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnerships) and TiSA.
Fifty-one http://johnflood.blogspot.com/2015/06/trade-in-service-agreement-tisa-and.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Flood)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7065001.post-221213018899184591Wed, 13 May 2015 11:03:00 +00002015-05-13T12:03:01.005+01:00accountantsBig 4Big Lawglobalizationlarge law firmsMDPAre We Seeing the Real Multidisciplinary Practices Emerge?
(thanks to nierodzim)
EY Law has hired partners from Baker & McKenzie and Weil Gotshal & Manges to join its financial services practice. They combine with lawyers from Freshfields, BLP and Addleshaw's.
It makes sense, and since the SRA is easing its rules on forming ABS and therefore becoming an MDP, that the big accounting firms are resurrecting earlier ideas about becoming http://johnflood.blogspot.com/2015/05/are-we-seeing-real-multidisciplinary.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Flood)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7065001.post-5903159007494975549Tue, 12 May 2015 08:00:00 +00002015-05-12T09:00:07.995+01:00careerlaw firmslawyerslegal professionwellbeingLaw Set Free...?
Liverpool Street Station Installation
Several years ago when I began tracking the changes in the legal services market, new types of law firm (or practice) were forming. Some were virtual, others were dispersed without formalised, central offices and some were not even law firms in the traditional sense but companies that offered legal services.
One of these I looked at was Keystone Law.http://johnflood.blogspot.com/2015/05/law-set-free.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Flood)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7065001.post-1098310266437725079Sat, 09 May 2015 14:26:00 +00002015-05-09T15:26:33.922+01:00globalizationlaw firmslawyerslegal professionThe New World Order for Lawyers and the Legal Profession(s)
(thanks to softpedia)
When you google "new world order" you find weird stuff. This was among the least weird and I do like the film, V for Vendetta.
I've written a piece for Jotwell on Ronit Dinovitzer & Bryant Garth, "Lawyers and the Legal Profession" (UC Irvine School of Law Research Paper No 2015-19). It opens thus:
"One of the main concerns of the authors is the structure of the http://johnflood.blogspot.com/2015/05/the-new-world-order-for-lawyers-and.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Flood)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7065001.post-477589450275116736Mon, 27 Apr 2015 21:41:00 +00002015-04-27T22:41:56.789+01:00bankruptcyBig LawglobalizationJewslawyersMaxwellHarvey Miller RIP
(thanks to New York Times)
The New York Times reported the death of Harvey Miller at 82 from Lou Gehrig's disease.
E.H. Carr who wrote a little book called "What is History?" years ago in the 1960s argued against the great man version of history or otherwise the theory of Cleopatra's Nose (on the basis that no man including Mark Anthony could fail to be attracted to Cleopatra therefore it http://johnflood.blogspot.com/2015/04/harvey-miller-rip.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Flood)0